Sprinkling-pipe connection.



BIO-852,584. PATENTBD MAY 7, 1907.

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SPRINKLING PIPE CONNECTION.

APPLIOATION FILED 13130.28, 190a.

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CHARLES W. SKINNER, OF TROY, OHIO.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 7,1907.

Application an December 23,1906, Serial No. 349.769.

device designed to facilitate the connection of the fixed and rotatory pipes and provide for turning the latter and for guarding the rotatory pipe against the admission of matter liable to clog the sprinkling nozzles. I The invention will be readily understood from the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing which is an axial section of my improved connection. y

In the drawing f--1, indicates the rotatory sprinkler pipe: 2, typical nozzles projecting therefrom: 3, a sleeve disposed in the same axial line with pipe 1 and separated endwise from it and adapted for tight and. rigid connection with the pipe which is to supply the sprinkler pipe with water: 4, a collar fast on that end of the sleeve 3 nearest the sprintee-shaped chambered casting inclosing theeneral spacebetween the contiguous ends oi the sleeve and sprinkler pipe and having end openings for connection With them: 6, an exteriorly threaded nose projecting from that end of the tee which connects with the sleeve, this nose en circling the sleeve behind the collar thereon and taking a facial bearing against the rear face of the collar: 7 a packing nut screwed upon this threaded nose of the tee and serving to form.the packed joint between the nose and the sleeve: 8, an interiorly threaded nose at that end of the tee which is to connect with the sprinkler pipe: 9, a bushing screwed tightly into this nose and having the sprinkler pipe screwed tightly into it: 10, aconical strainer disposed within the chamber of the tee and having its large end removably but snugly fitted within the bushing: 11, an interiorly threaded branch nose of the tee with a rotatory chambered tee its axis at right anglesto the common axis of the sprinkler pipe and sleeve: and 12, a handle screwed tightly into the branch nose of the tee.

It is to be understood that sleeve 3, being rigidly connected with the pipe which is to supply the ap aratus with water is rigid or non-rotary. lhe tee, and all ,the' parts screwed to it, are capable of rotati-oir relative to the sleeve and the packingiiisures'j'a tigPht joint at the point of swiveling anion, y giving angular motion to the fhandile'itlhe'tee and the sprinkler sired to prp perly direct the streams from the nozzles. he strainer guards the nozzles from foreign matter.

dle the chamber may be emptied of accumulated foreign matter and the strainer may be inspected. By unscrewing the bushing, first unscrewing the sprinkler pipe if desired, the

bushing may be removed from the tee, bringing with it the strainer and permitting the strainer to be readily removed from the bushing. ,In assembling the parts the sleeve is put in place by being inserted through the interiorly threaded nose 8.

I claim 1. A sprinkler" pipe connection comprisin a rotatory chambered tee having a bored ant exteriorly threaded nose at one end. and having an interiorly the other end in line with the first-mentioned nose and havin a threaded hose at right angles to theot er noses, a sleeve swiveled within the first-mentioned nose, a-packing nut engaging the first-mentioned nose an cooperating with the sleeve, a discharge pipe havin connection at said discharge-nose, a

conoi al.strainer disposed within said chem ber' and having its larger end held at the uncture of the discharge pipe chamber, and a handle secured to nose of the tee to serve in rotating the tee, combined substantially as set forth.

2. A sprinkler pipe connection comprising having a bored ant exteriorly threaded nose at one end and having an interiorly threaded discharge-nose at the other end nose and having a threaded nose at right angles to the other noses, a sleeve swiveled with the within the first-mentioned nose, a packing pipe may be tnrned; as de-.

By removing the ban-- the third threaded discharge-nose at TLC in line with the first-mentioned nut engaging the first-mentioned nose and l handle secured to the third nose of the tee to cofiperating with the sleeve, :1 bushing serve in rotating the tee, combined substanserewed into the interiorly threaded nose of tially as set forth. the tee and adapted. to have a pipe screwed CHARLES W. SKINNER. into it, a conoidal strainer disposed within. the ehau'lber of the tee and having its larger end fitted removably in the bushlng, and a l/Vitnesses':

R. B. MILLIKIN, M. S. BELDEN. 

